Improvement in bee-hives



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Letters Patent No. 103,166, 4lated,-IlIavy.17, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN" BEE-Hrvns.

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To all whom Iit may 4concern.

-Be it 4known that I, THOMAS A. Fluxus, of Middletown, in the` `county of Logan and State of Illinois, have invented anew and improved Bee-Hive; and I do hereby declare that the following yis a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being 'had to the accompanying"drawings andA to the letters of reference marked thereon.

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Figure l is a perspective view of' my improved heehive, and

Figure 2 is a central vertical elevation, taken on a line from froutto rear of iig. l; y i

Similar letters of reference denote lik'e parts in each of' the figures.

This invention relates tothat class of devices known as bee-hives, and y Y It consists in combiningfriction-rollers with `the lowereud of the bee-hive, in such a manner as to sup-v `port the hive above the surface upon which it is hive is pushed about.

To `enable those skilled in theja'nrt towh-ich my in,

placed, and to cause said rollers to revolve when the vention relates to makel and usethe same, I will pro ceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the annexed drawings forming'a part ol' this specification--` d d A A represent the walls `ot' the hive, and B, the cover. .l C represents aslide, placed over a glass in one side of the hive, for the purpose of observing the working of the bees, as also to ascertain the ,presence of bugs, insects, and the like, within the hive proper. D represents a form of comb-frame hung within the hive','as shown in iig. 2.`

The bees gain admission to the hive throughthe apertures E, arranged just above the sliding shelf F. G G. represent rollers, 'having a horizontal axis below the slide F, in such a manner thatv they will projcct below the bottom of the hive, thus raising it i'ree iom'whatever it rests upon, and causing it to be supported upon the rollers. rlhe peripheries ot' these rollers are nearlyor quite contiguous to each other.

Bugs, insects, Sto., will goin under the hive, and will thus be unable to get into it, being s hut out by means of slide F. l

`Flies, moths, bugs, and insects are destroyed by pushing the hive back and forth 'a few times two yor three times a week, which should be done early in the morning. i

'--It `any insect vor foreign matter whatever should get upon the upper side of the slide, it can he pulled out and cleaned. y

By this process the hive can be cleaned, and so kept without disturbing the bees.

- rlhe hive should stand upon some smooth, solid surface, as a pla-nk, table, or the like.

I do not confine myself to any particular number of rollers; but, having thus described my invention, A What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

The friction-rollers G G, arranged below 'the shell` l F, and supporting the body of the hive clear from the surface upon which said rollers rest, substantially as shown and described and for the purpose specilied.

In testimony whereof I have signed my naine hereto in the prescnceof two subscribing witnesses.

Titnessesz THOMAS A. FRAKES.

WILLIAM T00MnY, A. W. PRITGHETT. 

